ABOUT
decomP (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an
online literary magazine that is published monthly. We have existed since April
2004, and were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We publish prose, poetry, art, and
solicited book reviews. Our e-mail address is decomp.magazine@gmail.com (no submissions to this address).
Current Staff
Editor-in-Chief Jason Jordan is in the PhD program for Creative Writing at Ohio University. His books are The Dying Horse (Main Street Rag, 2012), Cloud and Other Stories (Six Gallery Press, 2010) and Powering the Devil’s Circus: Redux (Six Gallery Press, 2010). Additionally, his prose has appeared online and in print in several literary magazines. Visit him at his blog.
Art Editor Jason Behrends likes to be busy, and through that pursuit has acquired an addiction to caffeine. He founded the arts and culture site What to Wear During an Orange Alert? in Oct. 2006 and has been interacting with writers, artists, and musicians ever since. In March 2008 he founded Orange Alert Press and released the imprint’s first title that September. In November of that year he launched the Orange Alert Reading Series, which is held the third Sunday of each month at The Whistler in Chicago. He is also the editor of a Chicago-centric music site called The Deli Chicago where he delves deep into the Chicago music scene and manages a staff of eight writers. He is the music editor of the online literary journal This Zine Will Change Your Life. He is a regular contributor to the webzine Gapers Block, and recently joined the Chicago Tribune’s blogging extension ChicagoNow as he takes over the reigns of their literary site Chicago Subtext.
Prose Editor Margaret Patton Chapman has an MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and teaches creative writing at Indiana University South Bend. Her work has been published online at DIAGRAM, elimae, THE2NDHAND, and as a Featherproof mini-book, and she’s been short-listed for the Writers at Work, DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction and Glimmer Train New Writers awards. She maintains collaborative projects, sound experiments, and additional writing at her Web site margaretpattonchapman.com.
Poetry Editor Jac Jemc’s first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in April 2012. She is also on the editorial team of Tarpaulin Sky Press and was a guest editor for Hobart. Her chapbook, These Strangers She’d Invited In, was released from Greying Ghost Press in 2011 and she blogs her own rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.
Staff Book Reviewer Spencer Dew is the author of the forthcoming novel Maintain (Ampersand Books, 2012). A regular reviewer for Rain Taxi Review of Books, Dew is the author of Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008), Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Another New Calligraphy, 2010), and the critical study Learning for Revolution: The Work of Kathy Acker (San Diego State University Press, 2011). His Web site is spencerdew.com.
Staff Book Reviewer Jessica Maybury is a recent graduate of the MA in Writing programme from NUI, Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Nth Word, Word Riot and Prick of the Spindle, among other places. Her Web site is jmaybury.blogspot.com.
Former Staff
Brad Green was the Prose Editor from August 2010 to May 2011.
Jared Ward was the Prose Editor from April 2009 to August 2010.
Misti Rainwater-Lites was the Poetry Editor from January 2008 to May 2009.
Nick Ostdick was the Staff Book Reviewer from January 2008 to December 2008.
Mike Smith is the Founding Editor, and he edited from April 2004 to December 2007.